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If you're looking for a family doctor/GP, you can check what services they offer and the quality of care you can expect.

Check the quality of care

When we inspect GP practices, we give them a rating to help you choose care. As well as GPs, we inspect out-of-hours or mobile doctor services, walk-in centres, minor injury units and urgent care centres. You can use our inspection reports and ratings to help you understand the quality of care.

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Use our map to see rated GPs in your area, compare ratings and read inspection reports.

Inspection ratings

We rate most services according to how safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led they are, using four levels:

Outstanding – the service is performing exceptionally well.

Good – the service is performing well and meeting our expectations.

Requires improvement – the service isn't performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.

Inadequate – the service is performing badly and we've taken enforcement action against the provider of the service.

No rating/under appeal/rating suspended – there are some services which we can’t rate, while some might be under appeal from the provider. Suspended ratings are being reviewed by us and will be published soon.

Ticks and crosses

We don't rate every type of service. For services we haven't rated we use ticks and crosses to show whether we've asked them to take further action or taken enforcement action against them.

There's no need for the service to take further action. If this service has not had a CQC inspection since it registered with us, our judgement may be based on our assessment of declarations and evidence supplied by the service.

The service must make improvements.

At least one standard in this area was not being met when we inspected the service and we have taken enforcement action.